On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:43:54PM +0900, Howland, Curtis wrote: > I would be interested to discuss things with someone who is using a CD > writer under Debian. > > I don't need anything flashy, a USB connected device would be best from > a convenience standpoint, but are there any non-obvious problems? Here > in Japan, USB CD-RW drives are easy to get, but I would like to > short-cut my search if there are a few Debian-friendly brands or types > to specifically look for.
I have an Acer USB CD-RW drive, which works fine for me. The USB mass storage driver pretends USB drives are scsi drives, which seems to work quite well. > Yes, I'm running the 2.4.12 kernel. I had a few problems with an older kernel (2.4.10), as there have been a fair number of USB fixes recently. I think 2.4.12 should be fine, although you may need to move to a more recent kernel (I'm not sure). Anyhow, my guess would be that any USB drive you get will work. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
